Tackled (Alpha Ballers #1)

“Please, Drake, cum inside me,” I moaned in response. I needed to feel him. Saying that pushed me over the edge and I nearly lost consciousness as I came again.

I must have said the right thing, because Drake came too, and I could feel his cock pulsing inside me as his hot cum flooded into the condom.

We both made incoherent guttural sounds as Drake collapsed on top of me. He finally let go of my hands above my head, and I slowly moved them down, running them over the muscles of his arms and shoulders.

We drifted off to sleep with Drake’s cock still inside me.

CHAPTER 14 - DRAKE

I woke up before dawn, Lily lying next to me in her bed. It was dark out, and it took a few seconds for my eyes to adjust, and then I was suddenly confused - this was not my room. Lily stirred as I moved around and then the memories of the previous evening came flooding back, and I smiled, putting my hands behind my head.

Yeah. That had gone well. I stared at Lily, sawing logs peacefully next to me, and I marveled at the quiet beauty she showed even in repose. I had woken up next to my share of girls, on the rare occasions that I let them spend the night, and I couldn’t remember one that looked as good as Lily did while she slept.

And the sex, whoa, the sex had been wonderful. Just the best. I was already hard and ready to go again just looking at her next to me, but I knew that I should let her sleep. As an athlete I was used to getting up before the crack of dawn for workouts or practice, but she didn’t follow the same schedule, and as much as I wanted to fuck her again, I really should get going if I didn’t want to be seen when others started waking up.

I managed to extricate myself from the bed without disturbing Lily too much; she just sighed happily and continued dreaming away. I got my clothing from the pile on the floor, making sure to leave her stuff close by, and drifted out of the room like I had never been there.

I made my way stealthily through the Patriots compound, all grey and boring aside from bright posters of Patriots legends and inspirational quotes on the walls, darting left, looking right, making sure there was no one prowling the halls at 4am.

Really, though, even though I was skulking around trying to make sure no one noticed me, my mind was still back in Lily’s room with her. In my mind we were still fucking, still having the time of our lives exploring each other’s bodies.

I sighed, and glanced around really quick to make sure anyone I hadn’t noticed hadn’t noticed me making too much noise. This…could be a problem.

If I didn’t reign in my still-growing feelings for her I’d be in trouble. I really didn’t have time to deal with this right now - I was fighting for my life, metaphorically, of course. I knew that no other professional football team would give me a shot if I flamed out with the Patriots, so this was going to be my first and most likely only shot at ever playing for real on the biggest stage there was.

I needed to focus, to bury my head in the playbook and only leave the weight room and practice field to eat and sleep for the next month. But that wasn’t going to be easy with Lily Pearson around, both in my head and in person.

I had to find a way to keep this a casual thing. But even if I was able to, say if Lily would go for something like that…would I be able to stick with it?

And more importantly, would I be able to get done what I needed to so I could make the team and realize my dream?

Lily must know this was a short term thing too, right? Whether or not I made the team, she wouldn’t be covering me as closely, in her, uh, professional capacity, once training camp was over. Then it would be into the grind of the regular season, and I had no idea how guys with families or even girlfriends handled the constant travel, the long days and the significant preparation and recovery times before and after each game.

Playing high school and college football while juggling school hadn’t been easy, I couldn’t imagine how much tougher things would get if all I had to do was get ready to play, play, and recover from playing.

So maybe Lily knew this was going to be a short term thing. We would fool around and hook up when we could, and do our interview thing during the day, keeping things looking professional. And when I made the team, we’d separate. That could work, right?

I wasn’t even sure of that already. With any other girl I’d be thinking about more important things already, but this girl just stuck with me, like no one ever had before. I wanted her to like me, I wanted her to want to be with me, even if we could only do a short term thing because of our careers. Hell, I’d be with her in secret if I could.

I arrived back in my room right around then, and slipped my key in the door, not wanting to wake Lance Parker up. True to form, he was sleeping like a baby, and snoring like he usually did. Maybe I could get used to sleeping in Lily’s bed…

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